Spray

Finally got around to spraying stylet oil: did rows 2,3,4,7,8,9, plus the bottom side of row 5.  The rest of row 5 & all of 6 were just too overgrown and really needed some training & lateral removal, so I'll do that off & on today and plan on spraying them tomorrow.

Petiole Analysis, 2008 vs 2010

Exactly 2 years ago I took some petioles in (at bloom) to be analyzed by the local plant lab for mineral content.  And right now we're at about 80% bloom. So early this week I sampled from the random patches in the vineyard I did not do a foliar Zinc / Iron addition to find out how our soil amendment plan is doing.  Looks great!

Still need to do those fall Boron supplements (probably more aggressively), and Magnesium came up a bit low, otherwise looking quite good! Note that the units on this chart are in a random assortment of units, a true numbers jock worth her salt would have plotted as % of ideal to normalize the variety of units, ranging from ppm to % of weight. Maybe when she's done with client work she'll make the updates.

Why did I GIVE you water?!?

Countless times I've gotten the advice to provide just enough nutrients and water such that the shoots get to the top of your highest wire.

Well, once again, I've got ones that want to grow much more than that.  So, again afternoons have been spent pinching, trimming, and training all that growth and removing all the laterals.  Soon I'll give another good spray, as it's been almost 2 weeks and perfect PM growing temps.

I did give more water to the struggling rows - 1-2 & 7-9; although I believe their problem is more about lack of *sun* than lack of *water*.